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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Camera. Poetry. Homeless. Cambridge.

When I was in my teens I spent quite a lot of time with the homeless people of my local town. There were many things I learnt from this group of people , but as time went by I became particularly interested in their Poetry. Street Poetry. The rawness struck a chord with me and I liked it.

The way every day life was depicted through words was marvellous. I had never really been exposed to non-classical poetry other than when at the Ancestral home where we would play poetry games. It wasn’t all silly some was serious such as the writings in my little books and some of those I lived with. So to see all this in Street Poetry was an eye opener.

Street poetry was both heart wrenching and funny; some in a gut wrenching laugh way and others in a black comedy way, but funny all the same. The openness was raw. A time shared. Printed.

Today when browsing the news I came across the headlines “Cambridge homeless show pinhole beer can camera pictures” and I have read with joy that once again there is something unique going on in that town. It says “..the results so impressed the charity it is holding an exhibition of the photographs and selling beer can pinhole camera kits to raise money..” Full story HERE

So if you are in Cambridge today you can catch the last day of the exhibition at Chesterton Tower from 2 –5pm today. They are raising money for FLACK